I have recently just completed my first semester as one of the chairs of STEM Club. Being part of this club so far has been so much fun and I am so proud to have had a leadership role in it. So far some of the topics we have discussed in our weekly sessions include space colonization, eugenics, nuclear weapons, coding, and artificial intelligence. It really seems as though we are beginning to achieve our goal, with everyone in the group becoming actively involved in the different conversations that we have, and so far everyone has been very accepting and encouraging of all the different opinions within the group. At the moment we have 10 members besides the chair, all from different areas of the high school and from different social groups. Yet through STEM we have been able to break these barriers to have some really insightful conversations about topics that we are all passionate about and we are now all very comfortable and at ease around each other. As the second semester approaches, we are shifting our attention to an individual task for each member rather than just discussions, with each person completing some form of digital presentation to be uploaded to a website that we have just created. This presentation can be about whatever they are passionate about within the fields of STEM and will address the nature of their topic and its impact on our world. While myself and my fellow chairs are still not 100% positive as to what this will look like, STEM being a collaborative group will look to the opinions of others as well to decide how best to approach this next stage in the year. This relates to the 3rd and 5th CAS Learning Outcomes, as this entire CAS experience is organised by myself and two of my peers and is also acting as a CAS experience for others, as well as the collaboration we have been able to achieve between different people with shared interest.
